Efforts Emerge
To Recognize
Symptoms Earlier

All too often, the pain of a cancer diagnosis is compounded by the realization that the disease could have been caught sooner if only the early symptoms had been recognized.

Indeed, for all the enormous strides in cancer-screening technologies, some very basic red flags -- back pain, constipation, fatigue, even a hoarse voice -- are often overlooked because they resemble the symptoms of benign diseases. Patients are unlikely to call a...